What can I say....its BCB again the main player....BTW I am very much interested to know more about the "feeder" system Mcinnes and Pybus proposed to BCB (and rejected by them). Why not BCB put that to media instead of Pybus's contract?

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Where is the kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth-shattering kaboom!

I understand BCB is at fault here. However, IMHO, RP has to take his share of the blame, too. Lets look into excused given by RP and discuss -

If you have over 20 years of experience, you don't quit coaching an international side because board refused to provide you with sandwiches. The truth is, BCB is long away from a professional bunch, but you expect that going into a third world country like Bangladesh.

I wasn't actually looking for this job

What are you, 15? You are peer pressured into taking a position? If you are not truly interested then why send in the resume. I am sorry, I find this part truly unprofessional.

I haven't had a contract for nearly five months.

You could initiate meetings, but thats simply not enough. you did get paid to work in BD. We all know about your habit of when going gets tough, how you flee. This is sheer "one foot out the door" kind of policy. Read next -

I could prepare the team in camps, tour with them and be there for all series, but I needed to get home between tours for my family.

Come on dude, I don't have 20 years of coaching experience but even I know real coaching is done when there are no series. Thats the job of a team manager to be there during game. your job is to train the team, not add to the freeload of BCB directors during series'.

Details of my contract where leaked to the media and discussed in the public domain

What contract? I thought there was no contract! It was your wishful thinking of having 200 paid vacation days in a year. Mr. Pybus, you say BCB wanted you to work 320 days, I am sure that is not the case. Being in BD does not mean you are working 24/7. You have your weekends, paid holidays and on top of that you were offered 40 vacation days. We have a lot of professionals here, how many of us get 40 vacation days a year?

I wrote up the meeting in an email to the president, CEO and director of cricket.

Seriously, wrote up? after sheer failure in a major world tournament, you decide to flee out of the country without any accountability. Thats not freedom to work, that is pure unprofessionalism on your part.

Software updates and senior players being rested.

It takes time to get something approved, not only in BD, anywhere in the world in an organization. Yes its lack of professionalism from BCB. However, what do you think you are doing now as far as leaking info to press is concerned? You think other oppositions are not looking into you talking about how we dont have up to date softwares? And what are you, a dictator? If a team lost because of some senior players, managers, HOD should have a say in it too. you did not mention if you had them in your all important meeting before resting them. Now you are upset at them for not keeping you in their meeting?

I've always been driven by winning

What the heck were you doing in developing cricket nation like BD then? These boys are learning and will take time before they turn into Ausies. You needed to accept that and work with them. Not take up job with foot out the door.

Bottom line, Its easy to point fingers. Its harder to accept the challenges and make a difference. Always remember, when you are pointing fingers, you point 4 at yourself.

Reading this interview makes mke kind of sad how much the BCB and it's culture is holding back our cricket. Read thsi article as it outlines the specific faults. and probably is an indicator of why Bangladesh Cricket has been so slow to progress

I do not understand what is the purpose of selecting a foreign coach. If it is purely to grasp better techniques, then BCB can muddle with all other managerial job like player selection, counseling and so forth. If it is overall Team Manager approach, BCB needs to delegate responsibility to coach and should stop muddling like calling a meeting at 1 am without coach's presence. Any coach with managerial responsibility will feel left out.

Reading this interview makes mke kind of sad how much the BCB and it's culture is holding back our cricket. Read thsi article as it outlines the specific faults. and probably is an indicator of why Bangladesh Cricket has been so slow to progress

Just look at the size of the board, standing committees in BCB. As if they are running a country or sth. With this kind of a structure there will be bureaucracy and red tape in every possible action. Heck i reckon someone will even influence the brand of the toilet roll bought for BCB offices.

This interference has to stop. Coaches need to be given certain degree of freedom. And when guys like RP or RM bring in a proposal consider, they know cricket and they know what will help the development of the NT. But our 24 Directors (Many of whom probably dont know the c of cricket) think otherwise.

Its a shame what these guys are doing to one of the few things that brings pride and happiness to the country.

This is typical BD.. it's always someone else's fault. We are (Lotus, Tutul) are always blameless, it's our god given right to do whatever we want with public property.. Who put these incompetent people in charge? oops.. I forgot that lady is the biggest incompetent of them all

Originally Posted by BANFAN
There is no doubt about it, fault lies with BCB and the corrupt president and non cricketer stooges are the main culprits. If the analyst doesn't have a license for the software, that's utterly shocking. Yet many here likes to call LK the best and most honest president BCB ever had...

Some people also believe that the earth is flat and Hasina/ Khaleda are suitable to run a country.

So, who is in the Cricket Operations Comittee? Isnt it the same set of people who handled BPL issues?

However, what Pybus didnt get is lot of things in Bangladesh goes with 'managing' than whats in contract. Watmore got it because he worked within the system for a long time; Amarnath got it because he knew the culture well, Barlow got it because he worked with a set of 'laid-back-let-the-expert-figure-it-out' administration who revered him.

But when you have Tutul, Lipu, Bobby, Dastagir like heavily politisized brain-less folks running everything and everything, you will have problems. Especially with coaches who wants clarity in contracts, demanding in their planning and visionaries who dosnt like interferances and someone telling them 'NO' without providing an alternate solutions. BCB is the organization who let Julian Fountain go after agreeing to contracts, they let Ian Pont go because there was no planning, they also didnt let Champaka not do his work because they think he is destroying bowlers!! They say they don't have budget for 'sandwiches' but they have budget for Head of Delegation MPs to tour with the team? Tsutul, Lipu, Siraj has a better plan for Test cricket than Pybus, McCinnes? Hence, BCB will never hire a competent CEO because Lipu, Tutul, Bobby, Gazi will not be able to rein their influence as they have been..

Net net, what Pybus did is expose BCB. He did the right thing and as much as BCB prepares an official response, it has no value to anyone. I don't think people will believe an organization as BCB.. its almost like quarallening ( havent used that word for a while) with the crowd because they saw your dirty laundry and trying to convince them its not dirty, its not theirs!!

@mali007
why even think who'd be better? Is it because Washim will not impose on the right things after he gets "no" from the BCB?
Come one man, accept that the BCB is a circus and no qualified coach can do much improvement until BCB changes.
Anyone can come and coach the boys but it will give the same result that we have been seeing.

Originally Posted by Dhakablues
So, who is in the Cricket Operations Comittee? Isnt it the same set of people who handled BPL issues?

However, what Pybus didnt get is lot of things in Bangladesh goes with 'managing' than whats in contract. Watmore got it because he worked within the system for a long time; Amarnath got it because he knew the culture well, Barlow got it because he worked with a set of 'laid-back-let-the-expert-figure-it-out' administration who revered him.

But when you have Tutul, Lipu, Bobby, Dastagir like heavily politisized brain-less folks running everything and everything, you will have problems. Especially with coaches who wants clarity in contracts, demanding in their planning and visionaries who dosnt like interferances and someone telling them 'NO' without providing an alternate solutions. BCB is the organization who let Julian Fountain go after agreeing to contracts, they let Ian Pont go because there was no planning, they also didnt let Champaka not do his work because they think he is destroying bowlers!! They say they don't have budget for 'sandwiches' but they have budget for Head of Delegation MPs to tour with the team? Tsutul, Lipu, Siraj has a better plan for Test cricket than Pybus, McCinnes? Hence, BCB will never hire a competent CEO because Lipu, Tutul, Bobby, Gazi will not be able to rein their influence as they have been..

Net net, what Pybus did is expose BCB. He did the right thing and as much as BCB prepares an official response, it has no value to anyone. I don't think people will believe an organization as BCB.. its almost like quarallening ( havent used that word for a while) with the crowd because they saw your dirty laundry and trying to convince them its not dirty, its not theirs!!

Can u tell me about bobby? He seems to me a good person and educated.share if u know anything about him

Interesting interview. If everything he says is true, its hard to fault him.

Of course, I find it hard to believe a lot of what he said. First of all, you don't fly all the way to Bangladesh "out of respect" for a job you don't want to take. Second, the minute he says he wants 200+ vacation days, any credibility he has about wanting to overhaul the entire system goes out the window. It's laughable that he would expect to make any real difference putting in that little time. Lets not forget he was offered a salary far greater than the average for a full-time coaching job.

Regarding the family issue which he calls "the heart of the matter", he has always given mixed signals about his family moving to Bangladesh. That's where the issue lies. He was hopeful his family would move, but that didn't happen and now he wants out. Its as simple as that. I find it incredibly hard to believe the BCB wouldn't insist on this after going through the exact same thing with Law. They're incompetent, but not stupid.

Its this same issue over and over again with foreign coaches: Klusener and Newell had foresight and handled the situation professionally. Law, who didn't have the foresight but gave plenty of notice for a relatively smooth transition handled the situation professionally. Pybus, who left the country without telling anyone and then proceeded to quit without warning while in another country did NOT. That's a fact we don't need to infer on.

Originally Posted by Max100
Can u tell me about bobby? He seems to me a good person and educated.share if u know anything about him

Yes, him along with Gazi Dastagir, looks very 'Mo Kha Alamgir' type innocent but very politicized in handling the issues. He is one of the reason BCB is controlled by only few trusted people within the board. Here are 2 things that I am aware of from interviews.

- Bobby is instrumental in ousting several senior players including Rafique. Rafique openly named him as the reason he couldnt get back to BCB fold
- Bobby was also the manager in recent times and virtually ineffective in managing the team issues. Pybus also mentions this.

Originally Posted by Dhakablues
Yes, him along with Gazi Dastagir, looks very 'Mo Kha Alamgir' type innocent but very politicized in handling the issues. He is one of the reason BCB is controlled by only few trusted people within the board. Here are 2 things that I am aware of from interviews.

- Bobby is instrumental in ousting several senior players including Rafique. Rafique openly named him as the reason he couldnt get back to BCB fold
- Bobby was also the manager in recent times and virtually ineffective in managing the team issues. Pybus also mentions this.

Is he the son of late AL leader Mohiuddin? Is he elder son or the younger one? I think Papon is relative of Bobby (not blood relationship).